If you’re doing a lot of metal working ... [Making Stuff] wanted to do just that, but didn’t have a chop saw lying around. Instead, an old Stihl chainsaw was placed on the bench, and hacking ...

However, the wide variety of metal-cutting chop saws, band saws, and circular saws on the market makes it challenging to find the right tool. We evaluated some of the top options and rounded up ...

If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have a metal cutting bandsaw or abrasive-disk chop saw. In recent decades plasma cutters appeared in some farm shops to take slicing metal to a higher level.